“The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. From the spiritual point of view, such a life is the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants and is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.”

There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words and terms. Truth is not the monopoly of a particular race or religion.

I have come not to teach but to awaken.

Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

God cannot be explained… God can only be lived.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode.

I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.

Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.